Мэри Д. Расселл – лучшие книги

Двадцать первый век. Наконец доказано, что инопланетная жизнь существует. Радиотелескоп в Пуэрто-Рико поймал сигналы с планеты Ракхат — звуки дивного пения... В ООН ведутся бесконечные переговоры о возможном контакте — а орден иезуитов меж тем не медлит и спешно снаряжает собственную научную экспедицию из восьми человек. Взгляду иезуитов откроется совершенно новый мир. Непостижимый настолько, что они усомнятся: что есть «человек».

Возвращение на Землю не принесло покой душе отца Эмилио Сандоса. Несмотря на ужасные финал экспедиции на планету Ракхат, Общество иезуитов планирует новую миссию к альфе Центавра. Ватикан обращается за помощью к отцу Эмилио и тот, против воли и преодолевая страх, соглашается. Вооружившись поддержкой старых друзей, он отправляется к новым открытиям. Ради будущего детей, которые рождены за пределами Солнечной системы, ему предстоит бороться с собственным разумом и верой.

Планета Ракхат системы Альфа Центавра. Мир загадочной древней цивилизации. Мир, на который отправляется первая экспедиция землян, спонсируемая… Ватиканом. На борту звездолета — астроном, инженер, врач, специалист по компьютерам и четыре миссионера-иезуита. Так начинается один из самых оригинальных и увлекательных фантастических романов нашего времени, который критики сравнивают с произведениями Артура Кларка, Герберта Уэллса и Рэя Брэдбери. Из всех членов экспедиции на Землю вернулся только один — молодой иезуит Эмилио Сандос, познавший на Ракхате все ужасы и унижения плена и рабства. Отныне его единственная цель — держаться…

In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements has seen enough of the world to know that it’s unfair. She’s spent her whole life in the mining town of Calumet, Michigan, where men risk their lives for meager salaries—and have barely enough to put food on the table for their families. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground each day, dreading the fateful call of the company man telling them their loved ones aren’t coming home. So, when Annie decides to stand up for the entire town of Calumet, nearly everyone believes she may have taken on more than she is prepared to handle. Yet as…

Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, this new novel is the first in seven years by the bestselling author of The Sparrow and Children of God. It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand. She and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to be safe at last, now that the Italians have broken with Germany and made a separate peace with the Allies. The Blums will soon discover that Italy is anything but peaceful, as it becomes overnight an open battleground among the Nazis, the Allies,…

Mary Doria Russell, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sparrow, makes her Ecco debut with Epitaph—an American Iliad, this richly detailed and meticulously researched historical novel continues the story she began in Doc, following Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday to Tombstone, Arizona, and to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral A deeply divided nation. Vicious politics. A shamelessly partisan media. A president loathed by half the populace. Smuggling and gang warfare along the Mexican border. Armed citizens willing to stand their ground and take law into their own hands... That was America in 1881. All those forces came to bear…

I am sure of this much: my little story has become your history. You won't really understand your times until you understand mine...' Reeling from the aftermath of the twin tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic, diffident schoolteacher Agnes Shanklin has taken the trip of a lifetime: to Egypt and the Holy Land. But her arrival at Cairo's Semiramis Hotel coincides with an event that will change history. For the year is 1921 and the Cairo Peace Conference is about to preside over nothing less than the creation of the modern Middle East. At first Agnes acts as a welcome sounding board for the historic players - Churchill, T. E.…

The year is 1878, peak of the Texas cattle trade. The place is Dodge City, Kansas, a saloon-filled cow town jammed with liquored-up adolescent cowboys and young Irish hookers. Violence is random and routine, but when the burned body of a mixed-blood boy named Johnnie Sanders is discovered, his death shocks a part-time policeman named Wyatt Earp. And it is a matter of strangely personal importance to Doc Holliday, the frail twenty-six-year-old dentist who has just opened an office at No. 24, Dodge House.

Beautifully educated, born to the life of a Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday is given an awful choice at the age of twenty-two:…